{"id":142101,"date":"2014-11-19T17:30:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T17:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=142101"},"modified":"2014-11-19T17:30:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T17:30:57","slug":"five-c-gcse-grades-chicken-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/five-c-gcse-grades-chicken-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"Five A-c GCSE Grades \u2014 Then The Chicken Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They expect all young people to aspire to be kings and queens of \u2018the heap\u2019, to sit on its peak and look down on those who failed \u2014 those 74% of white British young men on free school meals who did not gain five A-C GCSE grades, including English and Maths in 2012, compared with 60% of young black men and 37% of all other young people on free school meals. Christopher Hope (<span class=\"skimlinks-unlinked\">www.telegraph.co.uk<\/span> September 3, 2013), quoted Christian Guy, the Director of the Centre for Social Justice, which produced these figures, who said they were \u201csobering\u201d. They suggest that despite much money and effort white working-class boys are in danger of becoming an educational underclass\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>They must be \u2018thick\u2019, and must be made to work, opine those who resent their own place in the work heap. Yet, they are wrong, for many young people take a conscious decision that the work heap is a shit heap, which is not worth climbing. They do not fail to attain five A-C GCSE grades because they have a low IQ, on the contrary, many have the insight to despair of their future prospects if gaining the entry level to \u2018the heap\u2019. They understand that over one million young people (their brothers and sisters) have been unemployed in Britain. Being \u2018educated\u2019is not the same as being intelligent.<\/p>\n<p>Many of those interviewed in the Reading the Riots study (www2.<span class=\"skimlinks-unlinked\">lse.ac.uk,2011\/12\/riots<\/span>), were from the country\u2019s deprived areas, and were pessimistic about their future \u2014 29% disagreed with the statement \u201clife is full of opportunities\u201d \u2014 compared with 13% among the general population. Their anger is reflected in the lyrics of the Anti Flag song \u201cNo Future\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>\u201ceverything that i see<br \/>\nthere is no future for me<br \/>\neverything that i read<br \/>\nthere is no future for me, for me, for me\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This anger is part of a European-wide revolt of young people pushed to the edge. They are all labelled as \u201clooters\u201d or \u201canarchists\u201d in the brainwashing, corporate press, but they are not. They know that their Starbucks coffee is likely to be made by debt-drowning graduate from a third-rate \u2018university\u2019. There is a greater supply of university graduates than a demand for them, because most available jobs do not require a university degree, including the much vaunted science ones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lenin2u.wordpress.com\/2014\/11\/19\/five-a-c-gcse-grades-then-the-chicken-factory\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They expect all young people to aspire to be kings and queens of \u2018the heap\u2019, to sit on its peak and look down on those who failed \u2014 those 74% of white British young men on free school meals who did not gain five A-C GCSE grades, including English and Maths in 2012, compared with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-142101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}